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ari_o (![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ari_o) wrote in ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} unfunnybusiness,@ 2009-08-12 13:29:00 |
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colorblind =/= enlightened
arhyalon For World Con, I was put on a diversity panel. I probably should have bowed out. I am against the idea of diversity as a political movement. I didn’t bow out, and I didn’t get to say a great deal, because there were six of us. But I did get to say that my kids go to schools that could be the poster schools for diversity. There are no two kids of the same color sitting next to each other. Because of this, my kids don’t notice race.
With further gems like:
"She said this to me—the person who didn’t notice that one of her friends was Black or that another was Korean (I just thought of him as ‘really cute’) until it was pointed out (unfortunately, in both cases it was pointed out when they told a story about someone being prejudice against them.)"
karnythia's angry response kind of washed away the disgusting aftertaste.
eta: While poking through their info I seearhyalon and her husband both went to St. John's College and I will just be over hear shutting my ears in the oven door to keep from posting at their LJs to say they have made me ashamed to be a Johnnie.
arhyalon For World Con, I was put on a diversity panel. I probably should have bowed out. I am against the idea of diversity as a political movement. I didn’t bow out, and I didn’t get to say a great deal, because there were six of us. But I did get to say that my kids go to schools that could be the poster schools for diversity. There are no two kids of the same color sitting next to each other. Because of this, my kids don’t notice race.With further gems like:
"She said this to me—the person who didn’t notice that one of her friends was Black or that another was Korean (I just thought of him as ‘really cute’) until it was pointed out (unfortunately, in both cases it was pointed out when they told a story about someone being prejudice against them.)"
karnythia's angry response kind of washed away the disgusting aftertaste. eta: While poking through their info I see
arhyalon and her husband both went to St. John's College and I will just be over hear shutting my ears in the oven door to keep from posting at their LJs to say they have made me ashamed to be a Johnnie.
